Man jailed in connection with bank robbery try

Local musician Richard Haskins turned
himself in to authorities Friday in connection with an attempted bank robbery
from the same day.

Haskins is accused of trying to rob a
bank in the 600 block of West University Drive at 5:40 p.m. Friday.

Denton police reported that a man went
through the drive-through lane and passed a note to the employee threatening to
rush the front doors if the money from the cash drawers was not delivered to
him through the drive-through carrier. The man drove off with no money, police
said.

“While [police] were investigating
trying to locate him [Haskins], he turned himself in to the jail,” said Officer
Ryan Grelle, spokesman for the Denton Police Department. “We did get a
confession that he said he did it.”

Haskins is best known for his punk rock
group, the Wee-Beasties, which borrowed the blasting horns normally associated
with ska music. The band was created while Haskins was still a student at Ryan
High School and remains together.

Haskins owned and operated Black Bottle
Recording Studio before the enterprise floundered and shuttered its doors
several years ago. He still works occasionally as a booking agent and a music
production engineer.

Haskins brokered the 7-inch vinyl, Don’t
Shred on Me, Vol. 1, that put two songs by Denton’s Grammy Award-winning polka
band Brave Combo on one side, and two Wee-Beasties songs on the other.

Haskins remains in Denton County Jail in
lieu of $25,000 bail. He is also being held on a charge of failure to appear in
connection with a criminal trespass charge from July 4.

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